The Milky Way (a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Galaxia Kuklos (meaning milky way)) traditionally refers to the a hazy band of white light across the celestial sphere, formed by stars within the disc of its namesake galaxy (the plane of the Milky Way). The great sky river is densest around the area of the constellation of Sagittarius, near M24. Jump to: navigation, search Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Jump to: navigation, search White is a color (more accurately it contains all the colors of the visible spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. ... Jump to: navigation, search Prism splitting light Light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength that is visible to the eye (visible light) or, in a technical or scientific setting, electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength. ... In astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an imaginary rotating sphere of gigantic radius, concentric with the Earth. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Pleiades star cluster A star is a massive body of plasma in outer space that is currently producing or has produced energy through nuclear fusion. ... A synonym for ball (in geometry or topology, and in any dimension) is disk (or disc Geometry In metric geometry, a ball is a set containing all points within a specified distance of a given point. ... Jump to: navigation, search NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 56,000 light years in diameter and approximately 60 million light years distant. ... The Silvery River of Heaven is the great swath of white/silver nebulosity that is the plane of the disc of the Milky Way. ... Sagittarius ( , and Latin for Archer) is a constellation of the zodiac, commonly depicted as a centaur drawing a bow. ... The M24 is also a sniper rifle. ...

It can mean several things:

• our galaxy, see Milky Way
• the Milky Way (mythology), the nebulous band of light in the sky, and associated mythology (see also Silvery River)
• M24, the Milky Way Star Cloud
• a candy bar, see Milky Way (confectionery)
• The Milky Way, an M-G-M cartoon short which won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons
• Milkyway Image, a famous Hong Kong feature film production company
• poetically, the region of a woman's breasts
• milky way, a path that is brightish, cloudy and whitish
• Milky Way, a song by Syd Barrett on his album Opel